Italian churchgoers denounce ‘liturgical horror’ of altar girl serving communion

A parish priest has defended himself after provoking a scandal in a small northern Italian town when he asked a child to help him serve holy communion.

Father Eros Accorigi said he had been without “an extraordinary minister of communion” during a recent Sunday mass at Santi Vito, Modesto e Crescenzia church in Ossanesga, a town in Bergamo province, and so chose an altar girl who he said appeared to have “the purest heart among so many sinners” to assist him.

The scene was filmed and shared on Gloria.tv, a Catholic video-sharing news site, prompting a furious email from churchgoers to the bishop of Bergamo in which they denounced a “liturgical horror”.

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Data on education and wages don’t show systemic racism in Canada: study

An analysis of educational attainment and economic outcomes shows limited evidence of broad systemic racism in Canadian society, despite what anti-racism activists and the mandate letters from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to his cabinet might insist, according to new research from The Aristotle Foundation.

“What this study tries to do is introduce some facts and evidence and logic into trying to (assess) the accuracy of this claim that we’re a systemically racist society,” said Matthew Lau, a senior fellow with the think tank who authored the research paper.

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Anger as Met police officers pull down posters of Hamas hostages

Police have been criticised after officers removed posters of missing Israelis from a shop in north London over fears of an “escalation” of tensions within the community.

The Metropolitan Police said it received calls from residents after the posters were placed on a business’s shutters late on Saturday evening.

According to reports, the posters were placed on a chemist in Edgware after some employees posted anti-Israel statements on social media, which have since been taken down. A staff member has since posted a message on social media apologising for the posts.

De-escalate tensions? Bullshit. They’re just afraid of the Muslims.

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Lawyers for family charged with falsely claiming Inuit identity appear in court

Nadya and Amira Gill race scammers

Ontario twin sisters and their mother were on the court docket in Iqaluit Monday, facing two charges each of fraud over $5,000 in one of the first cases in Canada of criminal charges for faking an Indigenous identity.

Nadya and Amira Gill, 25, and their mother Karima Manji had Ontario lawyers appear remotely on their behalf.

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BBC hails Roman emperor as ‘black Briton’ – even though he wasn’t black

Lucius Septimius Severus has been included in teaching material and children’s books

Silent partner with Berry Gordy in Motown Records

A Roman emperor has been listed as “black Briton” by the BBC and some UK museums, despite not being black.

Lucius Septimius Severus died on campaign in Britain in 211AD , and has been included in teaching material and children’s books alongside influential black Britons such as Mary Seacole and Olaudah Equiano.

Severus has also been included in a “Black History Collection” of documentaries newly compiled by the BBC, despite the emperor being of Middle Eastern and Italian descent.

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Israeli ministry ‘concept paper’ proposes transferring Gaza’s Hamas Supporters to Egypt’s Sinai, with Canada as a possible final destination

Israeli ministry ‘concept paper’ proposes transferring Gaza civilians to Egypt’s Sinai, with Canada as a possible final destination

JERUSALEM – An Israeli government ministry has drafted a wartime proposal to transfer the Gaza Strip’s(opens in a new tab) 2.3 million people to Egypt’s Sinai peninsula, drawing condemnation from the Palestinians and worsening tensions with Cairo.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office played down the report compiled by the Intelligence Ministry as a hypothetical exercise — a “concept paper.” But its conclusions deepened long-standing Egyptian fears that Israel wants to make Gaza into Egypt’s problem, and revived for Palestinians memories of their greatest trauma — the uprooting of hundreds of thousands of people who fled or were forced from their homes during the fighting surrounding Israel’s creation in 1948.

… Egypt would not necessarily be the Palestinian refugees’ last stop. The document speaks about Egypt, Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates supporting the plan either financially, or by taking in uprooted residents of Gaza as refugees and in the long term as citizens. Canada’s “lenient” immigration practices also make it a potential resettlement target, the document adds.


No thanks. Stupid of Israel to suggest Canada be used as a doormat for Hamas supporters. There is precedent however as they did dump their unwanted Eritreans in Canada.

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Israel’s President: ‘The Hamas Attack Does Not Represent Islam’

Israel’s President Isaac Herzog had some reassuring news for the world on Thursday: the appallingly ghastly and brutal Hamas attack on Israel doesn’t represent Islam. Herzog thus becomes the latest in a long, long line of non-Muslim leaders who are quick to assure us that the latest atrocity has nothing, nothing whatsoever, to do with what we all know and love as the warm and cuddly religion of peace.

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GUNTER: ‘Vote Liberal’ comment by cabinet minister shows federal party’s disdain for Alberta

It’s hard to believe she really said it.

On CTV’s Question Period on Sunday, federal Rural Economic Development Minister Gudie Hutchings said if Western Canadians and Prairie premiers would like carve-outs in the federal government’s carbon tax similar to the carve-outs given to Atlantic Canadians on Thursday, then Westerners should elect more Liberal MPs.

Vote Liberal. Or twist in the wind.

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Prairies should elect more Liberals if they want voices heard on carbon pricing: rural economic development minister

Rural Economic Development Minister Gudie Hutchings says if Western and Prairie provinces want to secure carve-outs in the federal government’s carbon pricing policy, they should elect more Liberal ministers who can share their concerns with the government.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced major changes to the Liberals’ marquee climate policy this week, namely that the Canadian government is doubling the carbon rebate for rural households — from 10 per cent to 20 per cent — and implementing a three-year pause to the federal carbon price on heating oil.

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A Case of Anti-Life Liberalism

Think baby factories are a thing for science fiction? Think again. A Swedish lawmaker wants his government to start researching the idea.

In the brave new world of liberalism, women have been reduced to “uterus carriers.”

Life is created in factories. Babies can be bought and sold like merchandise.

No, this is not science fiction. It is not some dystopian image of an extreme future.

This ‘vision’ of our future is found in a legislative bill introduced in the Swedish national parliament, the Riksdag. The sponsor is Mr. Joar Forssell, a member of parliament for the liberal party. He proposes that taxpayers’ money be spent “on research about artificial uteri” for the purposes of extending “reproductive freedom” to “uterus carriers.”

In other words, Mr. Forssell wants the Swedish government to sponsor the development of machines that can grow a baby from conception to birth, so that no woman will ever have to be pregnant again.

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